Senior Business Analyst
Location: Aspect house, Blantyre (Hybrid)
Salary: from £40,400 per annum + other excellent benefits
Permanent
Help us create a better future, quicker
Our Customer Business provides energy to households and businesses across the UK, delivering positive customer outcomes, strong operational performance and effective financial governance. As a Senior Business Analyst within the Budget, Planning & Process Team, you'll play a key role in supporting the effective financial management of UK Operations.
This is a varied and influential opportunity where you'll work closely with operational teams, Finance, Procurement, budget holders and suppliers to ensure robust governance, accurate financial control and insightful business reporting. By helping the business make informed decisions and continuously improve its processes, you'll contribute to the efficient delivery of services that support ScottishPower's journey towards a cleaner, more sustainable future.
What you'll be doing
You'll take ownership of supplier governance, supplier payments and procurement administration activities across UK Operations, whilst supporting the effective management of operational budgets. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you'll ensure suppliers are onboarded compliantly, supplier master data is maintained accurately, and purchase orders are raised and managed in line with financial controls, governance requirements and contractual obligations.
A key part of the role involves managing supplier payment governance, resolving invoice queries, supporting suppliers to self-serve through our supplier portal, and ensuring invoices are processed accurately and on time. You'll support procurement activities by administering tender processes, maintaining procurement records and documentation, and coordinating approval activities, while helping budget holders manage spend effectively and maintain appropriate purchase order cover throughout the financial year.
You'll produce meaningful financial, operational and performance reporting, providing leaders with the insight needed to make informed decisions. Using tools such as Excel and Power BI, you'll analyse data, monitor KPIs, identify trends and develop reporting solutions that improve visibility, control and performance.
Alongside this, you'll identify opportunities to improve processes, strengthen controls and enhance operational efficiency. You'll provide day-to-day leadership and support to a small team, helping to ensure key operational, financial and regulatory deadlines are delivered successfully, particularly during critical month-end, year-end and annual planning periods.
What you'll bring
You'll bring strong analytical capability together with experience of working in a financially controlled or operational environment, where accuracy, governance and stakeholder engagement are critical to success.
Ideally, you'll have:
- A degree in a business, finance, analytical or technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
- Experience in financial governance, supplier payments, procurement administration and/or budget management.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to translate data into meaningful business insight.
- Experience developing reports, dashboards and management information using tools such as Power BI and advanced Excel.
- The confidence to challenge, influence and build effective working relationships with stakeholders, suppliers and colleagues at all levels.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver against demanding deadlines during key financial reporting periods.
- Experience identifying and implementing process improvements that enhance controls, efficiency and business performance.
What's in it for you
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action, our benefits are designed to help you do just that, so that you have everything you need to take care of your world today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday Purchase, perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Schemes
- Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
- Technology Vouchers, helping you save more and spread the cost of technology purchases
- Electric Vehicle Schemes
- Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
- Healthcare benefit options including Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
- Shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, plus employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why ScottishPower
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer real career opportunities that support both personal and professional development within a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity and social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.
ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, who are neurodivergent, or who require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].
Mobility
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
August-20-2026
